This is the actual back cover for the “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” Blu-Ray. I haven’t stopped laughing all day.

Something almost delightfully stupid about a segment in which Dokoupil makes people pronounce his last name. …cool?

Are you a new follower? You’re here just in time.

Bari Weiss unnecessarily saying CBS News “loves America” just makes me think of Gob here.

Getting off Twitter, a platform which gleefully allows users to post revenge porn and child pornography with no oversight or regulation, also includes "just popping over there to grab screenshots to post on BlueSky" by the way.

Very incisive commentary from @garrettmartin.bsky.social on the state of the big IP-driven theme parks, which embody a paraphrase of the line from The Incredibles about when everyone is super, no one is. www.avclub.com/epic-univers...

We are so back

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this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

“Hey, whatever happened to that thing with your wife?” — A line late in The Fugitive (1993) that is arguably the funniest, most ridiculous line of dialogue in any movie in decades.

Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

Rewatching Justified for the first time since it aired, and apparently Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins didn’t win multiple Emmys for their work, which must have been a clerical error.

Gotta say, the few glimpses I caught of Stranger Things in its final season (all heavily CG) made me think of the grim experience of watching Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. All that money, in service of something that insults the definition of the word “muddled”.

This is an excellent read.

I can live with that.

Got to hand it to Trump, giving an insane interview about his health is really tuning in to a lot of the country’s New Year hopes and dreams.

A good start to 2026.

Last post (probably?) of the year, so I will briefly commemorate the four best films I saw in 2025.

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

The banner part of this not-often-pleasant year was getting back on the podcasting horse with @scottrenshaw.bsky.social. So as we wrap up 2025, I encourage you once again to subscribe to Mousterpiece Melodies: www.podbean.com/pi/pbblog-rk...

oh no www.vulture.com/article/ever...

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

This was a pretty good one

How I’m walking out of 2025

a great actor who took a cuss word and turned it into music sad day www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...

Tatiana Schlossberg died today. people.com/tatiana-schl...

“You must be very familiar with the terrible people who helped run this place into the ground, via media platforms that let them have a louder voice. Especially if they act mildly contrite for *some* bad stuff. Why aren’t you reading what the terrible people say now? That’s bad for journalism.”

marjorie taylor green believed in qanon which means i never have to take her seriously again even if her doctor found the right cocktail

Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: i got easily tricked by a moron and it took me years to realize it THE MEDIA: wow! may we hear your insights??

“He waves his hand like neither Americans or the Queen! I’m normal, and definitely not racist.”

Stood next to Tim McCarver at a traffic intersection in Baltimore. He was friendly! And also, he was taking a break in the middle of a morning jog, so he was shirtless. (So that was…weird.)

January 5: I’m reviving the Disney Animation bracket. 64 contenders will enter the thunderdome, and only one will emerge victorious. But that means YOU have to vote. (Yes, you.)

🎶 We gotta pod a little deeper… 🎶

It’s a holiday miracle! We end 2025 on a new Mousterpiece Melodies, as special guest @sepinwall.bsky.social joins @scottrenshaw.bsky.social and I to discuss the songs of The Princess and the Frog. mousterpiecemelodies.podbean.com/e/mousterpie...

I’m stuck on things like “inveterate punster” and saying the two TGIF meanings are a “double entendre,” all of which helps clarify Iger’s Zootopia 2 cameo.

Sigh. I did not mean to poke the hive with this, and I am (seriously!) on vacation, so I have not read all the responses. But the little red circle tells me there are a lot, and like the man says on here, I've seen enough. So: as much of a response as I can cram into a few minutes:

beyond parody to highlight three literal losers rather than anyone else

Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.

January 5: I’m reviving the Disney Animation bracket. 64 contenders will enter the thunderdome, and only one will emerge victorious. But that means YOU have to vote. (Yes, you.)

You’re the millionth person to say Avatar has no cultural impact, an argument so empty that the more people make it, the more they prove the opposite. But, please. Continue.

“You should be too busy to help people” is quite the counterpoint.

This is the kind of offseason Mets story I like reading.

Finally caught up with Zootopia 2, which is fine and also made me realize that the single best scene in a Disney Animation (not Pixar) sequel is the opening 15 minutes of The Rescuers Down Under.

As ever: if criticism of a thing makes you so defensive as to say “let me enjoy this thing,” the problem is you, not the critic.

SPOILER ALERT!!! The strangest things of all…were the friends they made along the way.

Netflix is stuffing its NFL broadcast with Stranger Things ads and tie-ins but if they were really smart they'd be providing viewers -- paying subscribers who are almost certainly already aware of Stranger Things -- with useful information like "Inside Man will not be available after December 31"

One of the ten best films ever made. You should watch it.